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Comment by panhandlr

"Nobody in their sane mine should curl a script into bash to install a product"

This, so much this.

I was actually extremely excited over a similar product "flynn"... but they have also lost their mind when it comes to installation: https://flynn.io/docs/installation

> sudo bash < <(curl -fsSL https://dl.flynn.io/install-flynn)

Seriously?

How is that any easier than just providing a package for any given distro?

I mean, for fucks sake, just give me the URL to a tarball with a fucking Makefile in it. I can handle the rest, thank you very much.

The security concerns alone should force any sane system engineer to never pipe curl to sudo'ed bash process.

parent panhandlr 11 years ago

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